Cooking TechniquesBlanching : This technique is used to partially cook vegetables or fruit. The vegetables or fruits are dunked in boiling water for short period of time after which they are quickly immersed in ice cold water, which suddenly halts....

Cooking Tips & Tricks Vegetables that have been lying in the refrigerator tend to look dull and lifeless. If you want to make a salad, and need your veggies to look fresh, soak them in cold water with a few drops of lime for about 15minutes....

Breakfast Recipes

Peel mangoes, remove seed and cut into half inch pieces. Boil five cups of water in a pan, add salt, turmeric powder, half the sugar, mango pieces and blanch. Heat oil in another pan. Add cumin seeds, fennel seeds, onion seeds and asafoetida. Sauté till a nice aroma is given out. Drain the blanched mango pieces and add to the pan. Add the remaining sugar, adjust salt and mix well. Do not cook for long. Remove from the pan immediately and serve. more »

Chop taro root into small pieces. Heat some oil in a non stick pan. Before the oil begins to burn add the chopped onion, pickle paste and taro root pieces. Stir and cook on a low flame. Take the pan off the flame. To the fried taro root add chopped coriander, green chilli, red chilli powder, salt and mango powder. Mash all the ingredients together to form a lumpy paste. Place this mash in the refrigerator cool for about 10 minutes. To make the dough, combine the wheat flour, ro more »

In a bowl add all purpose flour, icing sugar, almond powder, ghee, rose water, kewra water and water to prepare the dough.Now roll the dough and prepare small balls.Then fill orange peels and chopped almond in it and seal it, then sprinkle all purpose flour and spray butter and add some more almonds and bake at 100 degree C for 10 – 12 minutes.Garnish the Almond Ghoriba with icing sugar.Your Almond Ghoriba is ready. more »

In a bowl mash boiled potato and add salt, red chilli powder, all purpose flour, green chilli and cumin seeds to prepare filling.Now heat oil in a pan and add cumin seeds, ginger, green chilli, green peas, salt and black pepper powder to cook and also blend the prepared mixture.Then prepare small balls from the prepared potato mixture and fill the prepared filling and roll it.Coat the rolls with rice flour and fry them in oil for 4 to 5 minutes.Serve the prepared Aloo Matar Chop with Green Chutn more »

Take a bowl, Put Mashed Potato, onion, coriander, Mint, Cumin Powder, Salt, Coriander Powder, Chat Masala and Lemon Juice to a mixture and mix them well Mix all purpose flour with water in separate bowl. Keep your poha in a separate bowl as well. Now form tikkis of your mixture, coat them with all purpose flour, roll them in poha and deep fry till they develop a golden brown colour. Aloo Poha Tikki is ready. more »